PHILOSOPHER

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann

1743 - 1815

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Eberhardt August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (August 17, 1743, Uelzen – July 4, 1815, Braunschweig) was a German geographer and zoologist. He studied natural philosophy and mathematics in Leiden, Halle, Berlin, and Göttingen, and in 1766, was appointed professor of mathematics and natural sciences at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. One of his pupils was mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann has received more than 50,808 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann is the 914th most popular philosopher (down from 827th in 2019), the 3,196th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,697th in 2019) and the 117th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ranks 914 out of 1,267. Before him are Hermias, Johannes Agricola, Erich Neumann, Christian von Ehrenfels, Colotes, and Antoun Saadeh. After him are Theodor Gomperz, David Lewis, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Jaimini, Sengzhao, and Denis Pétau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ranks 26. Before him are Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, William Paley, and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst. After him are Johannes Ewald, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Johann David Wyss, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Marmaduke Tunstall, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Among people deceased in 1815, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ranks 21. Before him are Ahmad al-Tijani, James Gillray, Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Torii Kiyonaga, Matthias Claudius, and Solomon II of Imereti. After him are Carl Johan Adlercreutz, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Francesco Bartolozzi, John Singleton Copley, Johann Peter Salomon, and William Nicholson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ranks 3,196 out of 7,253. Before him are Susan Blakely (1948), Jens Böhrnsen (1949), Georg von Langsdorff (1774), Alfred Schwarzmann (1912), Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine (1456), and Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644). After him are Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), Henny Porten (1890), Martin Winterkorn (1947), Hans-Jörg Butt (1974), and Karl Mollweide (1774).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ranks 117. Before him are Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Johannes Agricola (1494), and Erich Neumann (1905). After him are Karl Groos (1861), Gabriel Biel (1418), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Heinrich Khunrath (1560), and Friedrich Paulsen (1846).

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